Crockpot Cooking Question

ScatterBrainedSpirit

I love using the slow cooker in the Fall/Winter. I am finding, however, that it is difficult to determine serving size when cooking with this method. For instance, the other night I did a pork rib roast with sweet potatoes & apples. After cooking, you remove the pork from the pot then scoop out potatoes and apples to mash in a bowl to be served as a side. In an instance like this, would you enter the items separately? IE: Pork as 1 item and the mash as another? I didn't record for 2 days because I honestly wasn't sure how to go about it. Any suggestions/comments/advice are appreciated.

AndrasLOHF

I'll usually enter the meal ingredients into the recipes section then portion out the food into containers and just divide it from the total.

hawkeygal

What the poster above me said. It's too hard to calculate (especially chili/stews) until I portion them out into containers and weigh each one to know exactly how much of it is in the container.

Fit_Fox88

As a general rule when I cook in the crockpot I use 1 cup as a standard serving. I wait until I am finished cooking and I scoop out the food in 1 cup increments. Then when we're finished eating I count how many additional 1 cup servings I put in a container. That way when I'm entering the recipe into the recipe builder I can accurately put how many servings the entire meal made.

Francl27

As a general rule when I cook in the crockpot I use 1 cup as a standard serving. I wait until I am finished cooking and I scoop out the food in 1 cup increments. Then when we're finished eating I count how many additional 1 cup servings I put in a container. That way when I'm entering the recipe into the recipe builder I can accurately put how many servings the entire meal made.

That's a good plan. I'll have to keep that in mind lol. I totally eyeballed it when I did it.